Friday, October 17, 2003A year on, reminders and recognition
For half an hour yesterday, 550 survivors of the Bali bombings and families of those killed filed into the Great Hall of Parliament House to light a candle to honour those who died. more

Thursday, October 16, 2003Bali memorial unveiled in Canberra
Survivors and families of victims of the Bali bombings today paid their respects at a new memorial in the gardens of Parliament House in Canberra. more

Monday, October 13, 2003Emotion overcomes Howard
Prime Minister John Howard today said he was moved to tears when he met families of the victims of the Bali bombings at yesterday's commemorative services in Bali. more

A day of sorrow and healing
Australia brought its grief back to Bali yesterday as the Prime Minister and the people joined in remembrance with mourners from the 21 other nations scarred by the terrorists' hand in last year's bombings. more

Bali brought closer ties: PM
Prime Minister John Howard today told a memorial service near Kuta Beach that the Bali bombings a year ago had brought the people of Indonesia and Australia closer together. more

Bali service at hilltop rock memorial
Hundreds of Australians today made a pilgrimage high into the Bali hills for an emotion-charged service to remember the victims of last year's terrorist bombings. more

Saturday, October 11, 2003Footy in the sun for survivors
Australian survivors of the Bali bombing returned to the site of their suffering today to hold a footy match in the tropical sun, surrounded by a deployment of 5,000 Indonesian police. more

No intelligence on more attacks: Australia
Australia's national police chief today said there was no intelligence to suggest that fugitive terrorists were planning "something symbolic" for the anniversary of the Bali bombing. more

More bomb attacks planned
Militants were planning more attacks in Indonesia and had already built two bombs, a top police officer said today, the eve of the first anniversary of last year's Bali nightclub blasts that killed 202 people. more

'We'll get the bastards'
An improbable friendship has grown between John Howard and the stepfather of a young man killed in Bali, writes Mark Baker.

'The end of careless abandon'
The Bali bombing has left the Prime Minister with his own memories, a fight with terrorism - and wondering what comes next, writes Michael Gordon.

The flight from Bali
A year after the Bali bomb, Tom Noble
reveals in full Australia's biggest
peacetime medical evacuation.

Holiday became a tragedyAlan Atkinson is an ABC reporter and producer based in Adelaide. He was on holiday in
Bali with his family when the bombs went off in Kuta last October and was one of the
first Western reporters on the scene.

How they got the bombers
The biggest criminal investigation in Australian history overcame more than cultural obstacles. Mark Forbes and John Silvester report.

In marking
the first anniversary of the Bali bombing in October last year, The Age
wanted to publish a fitting tribute to the memory of those killed. We felt
it important not only to reflect the solemnity of the occasion, and the
magnitude of that terrible loss, but through the intimacy of individual
stories we hoped to capture some of the unique qualities of those who died.
We decided to approach the families of the 88 Australian victims, to seek
their support.
A letter explaining our intentions, and asking if they would contribute
to our memorial, was circulated or posted directly to those affected.
We were conscious that this was a sensitive time for all concerned but in
the last year many families had paused to look back; many told us they wanted
an opportunity to celebrate the lives that were taken from them.
The response was overwhelmingly positive. Families across Australia were
open and generous. Personal interviews were then arranged and a team of
reporters and photographers sent around the country.
Of the 88 victims, fewer than half a dozen families had previously indicated
that they did not wish to be contacted by the media. We respected their
wishes but rather than exclude the memory of a few, in these cases we drew
on publicly available material.
Collectively, the 88 victims represent husbands, wives, sons, daughters,
fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, partners, lovers and friends to those
left behind.
We thank everyone for sharing their story with us.